Lampshades are a great way of introducing a dash of bright colour into an otherwise understated room. A flamboyant lampshade, particularly on a floor lamp, can be a good way to make a dramatic design statement without breaking the bank on an expensive ornament. Of course, the best way to find the perfect lampshade is to try lots of different ones with your lamp base until you find one that feels just right. Now go and have fun finding your perfect one….
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Some good shade-size rules of thumb for table lamps are: The height of the shade should be about three-quarters the height of the base.
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Is there any reason beyond absurdity that it's supposed to be funny? I think it goes back to the day when men typically wore hats as a matter of custom. Probably spontaneous generation, lubricated with alcohol. I never thought it was supposed to be funny; I always figured it was shorthand for "an unfunny drunk who doesn't know how unfunny he is.
I seem to recall it being used in old bedroom farces - the cuckolded husband returns home; the surprised lover has to find a way to hide quick, so sticks a shade on their head, stands still and makes like a standard lamp. The actor playing the husband pretends this works and remains blissfully unaware of their love rival despite standing right next to them.
Hilarity ensues. Yeah I've always interpreted this as the "straights" idea of what happens when people drink. You know, a cautionary meme that became a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The first thing that came to mind is Peter Sellers in The Party, but I don't know if he ends up with a lamp shade on his head, my memory of the movie is vague.
Seconding Doohickie. A floor lamp can look an awful lot like a hat rack if you've drunk enough. Didn't Charlie Chaplin use this gag in one of his movies? It would be interesting to know if the gag predates that. I'm psyched that you posted this because the other day I wondered this very thing. Following organe swan, the answer I came up with in my head was that it was done in an old movie or television show and then just became the standard go-to joke about drunk people.
I sort of picture Jackie Gleason or Art Carney doing it once in the Honeymooners or something and then it becoming the comedy gold Doohickie refers to. Of course it could go back as far as Chaplin, too. Having witnessed someone legitimately putting on a lampshade with comedic intent and seeing how truly funny it can be, my vote is for someone having done it once a long time ago and the gag just took on a well-deserved life of it's own.
Doohickie has it. And then people making fun of a legitimate, embarassing mistake gave it the legs. Best answer: I associate the lampshade-on-head bit with single-panel comics of the s, but don't have a reference for that.
It's a great question. Chaplin did use a lampshade as a disguise. It wouldn't surprise me if this were a trope that occurred earlier, on the stage, too.
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